Oncology appointment

Hi .

Welcome to the forum . Glad your mum is safely through surgery . Are her lymph nodes near the tumour or distant from her primary tumour ? All the very best with her other scans and hope they bring some good news .

The bowel can take a while to settle after surgery . When did she have her surgery ? However she can get help to manage it so I would get back onto her team or the GP . Does she have a specialist nurse you could phone ? Or you could chat with our helpline staff 0808 808 0000. They could perhaps get additional information for you .

I can understand your concern regarding her care and thinking of going privately. However I might wait to meet her team and assess it from there . Standard chemotherapy follows a protocol which is pretty universal and I was impressed with the care my mum has received through her oncologist. You might want to explore it a bit first . My friend has used a private oncologist and the benefit for her in a stage 4 setting was access to additional agents and probably one I remain quite in awe of was her scan results were within 24 hours . She did get a lot of good communication with them . Now she has the same oncologist under the NHS as her funding ran out and she is finding it doable . Waiting a little longer for scan results . Missing her dedicated nurse but on the whole not too bad .

I am sorry your mum had such a difficult time getting assessed. It really does affect your trust of the system but some individual specialists are really good . But it’s entirely up to you as a family and I understand you want to ensure no further mistakes are made .

Hope all goes smoothly with her scans .

take care ,

Court